Barring any last-minute change in
plans, President Muhammadu Buhari will vie for the chairmanship of the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Lome, Togo, on Tuesday.
A new chairman will succeed
President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo at the end of the 53rd Ordinary Session of
the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government.
Buhari departed Abuja on Sunday
for Lome in company with a team of two governors and five ministers.
Also in the delegation are
Babagana Monguno, the national security adviser (NSA); Abayomi Olonisakin,
chief of defence staff; Ahmed Abubakar, the DG of the National Intelligence
Agency (NIA); and Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN).
TheCable reports that Buhari was
prevailed upon Monday night by some West African countries to go for the
position.
Other countries that initially
showed interested in the chairmanship are Ghana, Sierra Leone and Cape Verde.
A diplomat also revealed that:
“At a dinner on Monday night, some of the West African diplomats had a long
discussion with Buhari and persuaded him to run.”
It was also discovered at the
weekend that the president was interested in the position, but senior
government officials denied knowledge of it.
It is still unclear if President
Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana will be throwing his hat in the ring.
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